Shogun (1980) s01e01 Episode Script

In the year of our lord 1598, five trader warships left the dutch city of rotterdam as the first expeditionary force ever sent to ravage and plunder spanish and portuguese possessions in the recently discovered new world.
Protestant holland had been at war with catholic spain for more than 40 years, with england her only ally in the struggle.
The spanish had discovered the vast riches of the americas, and, legend had it, the even greater riches of mysterious cathay.
Both holland and england were determined to share in this wealth.
Only one dutch ship survived the violent storms and icy seas of cape horn to breach the enemy's secret of the straits of magellan, and finally sail into american waters the erasmus.
Under the command of pilot-major john blackthorne, with only 28 men of his dutch crew still alive, the erasmus ventured into the pacific.
There, pursued and outnumbered by spanish fleets, her retreat cut off, this ship turned westward and fled, alone, into the unknown.
Now, almost two years outward bound from home, 133 days from her last landfall how be the pilot? I take this watch.
Where's the mate? Dead.
There's the stink of death, pilot.
What's the course? Wherever the wind takes us.
And where's the landfall you promised, eh? Where's the japans? Ahead! Ahead! Always ahead! Blessed jesus! Damn the day i left holland! Get aloft, maetsukker.
No, i'm near death, pilot.
I'm sick.
The scurvy's taking me! I can't! You'll get your face aloft and stay there till you're dead, or we make landfall! How are you feeling, johann? Good enough, pilot.
Perhaps i'll live.
At your age, most men are already dead, so you're ahead of us all.
It's the saintly life i've lead that and the brandy.
Bosun's dead, pilot.
Get the body aloft you, and roper, and croocq.
Johann, take the dawn watch.
Ginsel, you're bow lookout.
Yeah.
Captain-general.
Where where are we? Still on course.
You and your damn course.
There is no japans.
You you'll kill us all.
We'll get there.
We'll make landfall.
It's a lie.
All lies, from the beginning.
God rot you, pilot.
Reef! Reef ahead! All hands on deck! All hands on deck! Pilot? Lord jesus, help us! Get the crew on deck! Go on! Get out on deck! Out! Get aloft! Fores'is ho! Aloft! Reef! Reef ahead! Turn, you whore from hell! Turn! Damn you, turn! Is this the japans? The japans? It is the japans.
My god, it has to be.
Oh, uh sorry.
Where are my boots? Uh boots.
Feet.
Boots.
Thank you.
My name john blackthorne.
What's your name? Blackthorne.
What's your name? Onna.
Onna? Onna.
Onna.
Hai! Onna.
Can you take me in your boat to my ship? Hai.
You wait here for me.
Wait here for me.
Hai.
But this is my ship.
There are papers in my cabin.
I need them.
I me want to go in there.
- Who are you? - Who are you? I am father sebastio, and you are a heretic dutchman pirate.
How did you get here? We were blown ashore.
What is this place, the japans? Yes.
The authorities know about you.
They crucify criminals and pirates here.
You're going to die.
Where's my crew? They will die with you.
May god burn you in hellfire for all eternity.
Kasigi omi-san wants to know where do you come from, what's your nationality? Who is he? He's the samurai in charge of this village.
You'd better answer quickly.
Tell him i'm english.
I'm pilot-major of the erasmus, out of rotterdam.
Omi-san says because you are the pilot, you may walk around the village until his master comes back.
Lord kasigi yabu will decide your fate.
What about my crew? Where are they? Omi-san says, "do you understand?" What's "yes" in japanese? Hai.
By the lot! Jesus, pilot! You're alive! Where's the ship? Is she safe? Anchored in the bay.
Where are the others? Dead, pilot.
Savages took them away.
Captain-general.
He can't hear you, pilot.
All he does is lie there and moan.
He's in god's hands.
We all are.
Is it the japans, pilot, is it? Aye, it is but there's a priest here a jesuit.
Where there be one priest, there's bound to be others.
Priests and papists they'll burn us at the stake.
The day of judgment approaches.
We never should've sailed here! Are there riches, pilot? Is there gold? There must be.
Gold and riches did you see it, pilot? Have you seen the gold? No.
Well, then, maybe roper's right! Maybe it's only grief that brought us here.
- It's god's punishment! We - stop it! We're the first ones to reach japans, and we'll all be rich if we keep our wits! How? By trading with the devil? It's always the devil with you, isn't it, jan roper.
The devil lives on your lips.
Look to your soul, johann vinck.
Will they let us back on the ship, pilot? Will they let us go now? The ship is under guard.
Guards? Are the heathens aboard? Sweet lord, pilot, what are we to do? We've got to get away from here, this is the land of satan.
Hold your tongue, man! We'll do whatever we can.
Their chief is coming soon, then we'll get everything settled.
You think he'll let us go? Why shouldn't he? Done them no harm.
The way they all smile and bow they're not bloodthirsty heathens, are they, pilot? Are they? Mmm ugh! The same swill as before! Raw fish! How do they expect us to cook it with no fire? He wants you, pilot.
Maybe the chief is here.
Tell him, pilot.
Tell him we've come in peace.
I'll do what i can.
He wants all of us.
No, i'm not going with that devil.
Roper, you and pieterzoon bring the captain-general.
He's going to meet his maker.
Leave the poor man lie! Do as i say, roper! I'll bring him, pilot.
Bow to him.
He's a heathen savage.
The daimyo, kasigi yabu, lord of izu, wants to know how you got here.
By magellan's pass.
Liar.
Magellan's pass is secret.
You came by africa and india.
The pass was secret.
A portuguese sold us a rutter a pilot's chart book from his ship.
Liar! Soon, all our ships will know the way through to the pacific.
Heretic lies! But you'll tell the truth soon enough.
They use torture here.
Lord kasigi yabu wants to know what act of piracy you have committed.
None! We are not pirates.
We come in peace.
Another lie.
Give him my answer, damn you.
God curse you forever.
Tell him we are not pirates, you jesuit pig! Lord kasigi yabu says your pirate ship and all it contains is confiscated.
You papist liar! You lied to him! You filthy lying jesuit! The guards sweet jesus, death.
We should all pray.
Vinck just did.
I'm sick.
I got to lie down! Don't touch captain-general.
Dying, anyways.
Then you don't touch him! Shut up! All of you, shut up! - Get off my foot.
- Ah, shut your face.
What are we going to do, pilot? Are they going to kill us? Lord kasigi yabu has graciously spared all your lives all except one.
One of you is to die.
You are to choose who it will be, but you, pilot, you are not to be the one chosen.
Lord jesus, help us.
What are we to do now, pilot? I don't know.
How? How are we to choose someone? We don't.
We fight them.
With what? Give them the captain-general.
He's useless, anyway.
You make a man sick! No! They'll take none of us without a fight.
If we fight, they'll kill us all.
You heard what he said.
All our lives are spared except one.
How do we choose? We don't, damn it! Listen to me, pilot.
This doesn't concern you anymore.
This is between us now.
It's our decision.
Aye.
We'll draw lots.
Straws.
One shorter than the rest.
Agreed? What about the captain-general? He wasn't excluded.
Then let the last straw be for him.
Who'll be the first to pick? How do we know that that the man who picks the short straw will go, huh? Well, how do we know that? We'll all swear to god.
A holy vow.
I swear it.
I swear.
- I swear it.
- I swear.
I swear to god.
God be praised.
Ooh! Nobody's walking to death without a fight.
- But we agreed! - I didn't.
It's all right, pilot.
We agreed.
It was fair.
It's god's will.
Nobody is going without a fight! Get away from the ladder, pilot.
You'll get us all killed! No.
No, it's not me! I'm not the one to go! Help me, for god's sake! I was going.
I swear before christ, i was going.
Oh, pieterzoon.
Why did they leave him there? They could've carried him away.
Maybe they thought he was dead.
He will be soon enough.
You all right, pilot? Vinck.
We won.
Aye, we did.
It was hans pieterzoon they took.
No! No! No! No! Oh, my god! No! No! Oh, my god! No! This poxy heathen's awake.
Come on.
Get up.
You! Up! What should we do with him? Kill him.
No.
Maybe we can trade him for something.
Look at the way he's just squatting there, like he don't see nothing.
Pieterzoon.
God in heaven.
Pilot, you are to come up alone.
What do they want with me? I don't know, but you must come up at once.
What happened to my man? What happened to pieterzoon? He's dead.
May god have mercy on his soul.
Pilot, you must come up.
They can have me instead.
Tell them me, not him.
Pilot! What did he say? It's a saying.
"A man's fate is a man's fate, and life is but an illusion.
" What the hell do you want with me? Mind your manners, pilot, i warn you.
Tell this poxy bastard that i'm a lord in my own country.
Tell him.
He says he does not care if you are a king in your own country.
Here, you live at lord yabu's whim you and all your men.
Tell him to go to hell.
If you do not agree to behave, another of your men will be brought up.
What does he mean, "behave"? It means to obey.
Obey totally.
Tell him i piss on him and his whole country and his lord yabu.
No, i can't! Tell him exactly! No, you can't.
Aah! The heat! The heat! Aah! No! Please! Tell him please ask him to stop.
No, please! Do you agree to behave? Yes, i agree.
He wants you to answer directly to him.
The japanese for "yes" is hai.
He says, "will you obey all orders?" Hai, as far as i can, hai.
Omi-san says, "lie down immediately.
" He says he did not insult you personally, and there was no cause for you to insult him, but you must be taught manners.
Do you understand? Yes, tell him i understand.
You must tell him yourself.
Hai.
He says it was bad manners to to say what you said.
Very bad.
Do you understand? Hai.
Get up.
What about the boy? Croocq? Croocq, lad? Is the boy all right? He's alive.
Omi-san says you are to go with muraji.
You will obey his orders.
Hai.
He has also said that the lives of your crew depend on your behavior.
If you fail to obey, they will suffer.
Is that clear? Yes.
Hai.
Omi-san says that since your name is so difficult to say, from now on, you will be called anjin that means "pilot.
" Omi-san wants you to know that this is not meant as an insult.
Anjin anjin if you say so.
Oh, no.
No, i don't.
Like hell.
A bath'll make you foul sick.
Get out of my way.
Oh, sweet jesus.
Yes.
Yes.
Hai.
Lord yabu's pleasure at having the barbarian as his prize vanished with a glance.
The galley that was rounding the headland depended on neither wind nor tide.
And on its sail was the crest of lord toranaga.
And toranaga's most trusted ally, general toda hiro-matsu, was standing on the deck, the barbarian ship calmly at anchor in front of him.
This was no coincidence.